Here we’ll show you how to install the Windows Server Backup feature in Windows Server 2016.
- Open Server Manager –> Manage –> Add Roles and Features
- Click Next in the first Screen of Setup Wizard (Before you Begin)
- Select Role-based or feature-based installation.
- Leave the default settings and click Next.
- In Server Roles Click Next without add any Role
- Go down , check the Windows Server Backup and click Next.
- Click Install and Wait to finish the Installation.
Backup the Server with Windows Server Backup:
- After finish the installation go back in Server Manager and click Tools – – > Windows Server Backup.
- Click Local Backup and from the right side select Backup Once or Backup Schedule if you want to Schedule your Backup.
- This will open up a Getting Started window advising that we can use this wizard to configure a regular backup schedule for the full server, system state, selected files, folders or entire volumes – click Next to proceed.
- On the next Select Backup Configuration window we can select if we want to perform a full server backup which is the recommended and default action, or we can optionally select custom to pick specific volumes or files that we want to backup rather than the full server. In this example we will be configuring a full server backup, however you can change this to suit your requirements.
- The next window allows us to specify the time the backup should run. We can set the backup to run once daily at a specified time, or we can optionally have it run multiple times per day by selecting the more than once a day option and adding the times the backup should run to the right side.
- Next we will be asked to specify the destination of our backup data. The recommended option is to store the data on a separate disk that is attached to the server, however we can also change this to backup to another volume, or a network share. In this example I’ll be using a network share as I have one available, however note that there is a limitation of this, we will only be able to store one backup point at a time as new backups will overwrite the existing one. This limitation does not exist when you backup to another disk or volume.
We will now specify the network location, here I pick a file share that is available on the local network and click Next to continue. If you selected a disk or volume destination rather than network, you would instead be asked to pick that disk or volume here.
Specify the Location of your Remote Share Folder and in Access Control select Inherit to has access in backup everybody which can access in Remote Folder. For this scenario i choose this option.
- Click Backup.Wait to finish. The time that need is base on the Windows Server storage size.
- That’s it, the backup should automatically start at the time specified. We can manually initiate it by going back to the Windows Server Backup window and selecting “Backup Once”. From here we are given the option to create a once off backup based off of our scheduled backup, so all of the same settings will be used but we will be running the backup now rather than at the scheduled time.
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